[PATCH] cdc-acm: Kill ACM_READY() macro completely

From: Havard Skinnemoen
Date: Fri Dec 09 2011 - 19:52:20 EST


The ACM_READY() macro doesn't seem to do anything useful, and it may
prevent tty_wait_until_sent() from working properly when called from
close.

Previously, acm_tty_chars_in_buffer() returned 0 whenever
acm->port.count was 0. This means close() could return before all the
data has actually been written.

Signed-off-by: Havard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Hi Greg,

Thanks for picking up my patch. Unfortunately, it's not completely bug-free.

This fixes an issue I found while testing the patch: After writing something to
/dev/ttyACM0, the process would hang for a fairly long time (10-15 seconds)
when closing the device. This is because port.count drops to 0 before
tty_wait_until_sent_from_close() is called, which causes ACM_READY() to return
false, any outstanding writes never get reaped because the workqueue doesn't
get scheduled, tty_wait_until_sent never sees any progress and eventually times
out.

Please feel free to fold this into "cdc-acm: Fix potential deadlock (lockdep
warning)", or let me know if you want me to send you a v2 of that patch
instead.

drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 10 +---------
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
index 3027ada..d9d9340 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
@@ -60,8 +60,6 @@ static struct acm *acm_table[ACM_TTY_MINORS];

static DEFINE_MUTEX(acm_table_lock);

-#define ACM_READY(acm) (acm && acm->dev && acm->port.count)
-
/*
* acm_table accessors
*/
@@ -319,9 +317,6 @@ static void acm_ctrl_irq(struct urb *urb)
goto exit;
}

- if (!ACM_READY(acm))
- goto exit;
-
usb_mark_last_busy(acm->dev);

data = (unsigned char *)(dr + 1);
@@ -481,8 +476,7 @@ static void acm_write_bulk(struct urb *urb)
spin_lock_irqsave(&acm->write_lock, flags);
acm_write_done(acm, wb);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&acm->write_lock, flags);
- if (ACM_READY(acm))
- schedule_work(&acm->work);
+ schedule_work(&acm->work);
}

static void acm_softint(struct work_struct *work)
@@ -492,8 +486,6 @@ static void acm_softint(struct work_struct *work)

dev_vdbg(&acm->data->dev, "%s\n", __func__);

- if (!ACM_READY(acm))
- return;
tty = tty_port_tty_get(&acm->port);
if (!tty)
return;
--
1.7.3.1

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